Criminal – First-Offender Statute – Cocaine Conviction

By Deborah Elkins
Published: November 10, 2008

The Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a judgment allowing revocation of the first-offender status under Va. Code § 18.2-251 of a defendant convicted of cocaine possession. The Court of Appeals held that while the circuit court’s Dec. 21, 2004, order granting defendant first-offender status explicitly ended her supervised probation on Dec. 21, 2005, and that the ...

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